Hex Fiend Alternatives

Apps similar to Hex Fiend include ImHex, which is free and open source. Other options are HxD, dz6, wxHexEditor and 010 Editor. Hex Editors like Hex Fiend are a crowded field, with more than 25 alternatives for Windows, Linux, Mac, the web and Android.

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  1. REHex icon
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    A cross-platform (Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD) hex editor for reverse engineering, and everything else.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • GB flagUnited Kingdom
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  2. A hexadecimal low level disk editor with extensive templates for NTFS, FAT and exFAT partitions

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  3. WinHex icon
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    WinHex is a hexadecimal editor capable of opening disks, sectors, files (native support for FAT, NTFS, Ext2/3, ReiserFS, Reiser4, UFS, CDFS, UDF) and physical memory (RAM). It can read, write and extract data for a further forensic analysis.

    46 WinHex alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. HexEd.it icon
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    HexEd.it is a free hex editor for all modern operating systems. It uses web technology to enable online hexediting, directly in the browser. Analyse binary dumps and files, read, manipulate, write, import and export any data in this webapp.

    13 HexEd.it alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  5. MadEdit icon
     13 likes

    MadEdit is an Open-Source and Cross-Platform Text/Hex Editor written in C++ and wxWidgets.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce
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  6. Hex Workshop icon
     15 likes

    The Hex Workshop Hex Editor by BreakPoint Software is a complete set of hexadecimal development tools for Microsoft Windows 2000 and later. Hex Workshop combines advanced binary editing and data interpretation with the ease and flexibility of a modern word processor.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. Hex Edit icon
     6 likes

    HexEdit is a Windows hex editor, user-friendly and reliable with advanced features (full undo, macros, background searches, calculator, full customization, edits huge files).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • GB flagUnited Kingdom
    Hex Edit screenshot 1
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  8. PilotEdit icon
     3 likes

    PilotEdit Lite is an advanced text and hex editor that supports opening of files larger than 4GB. It offers customizable syntax and keyword highlighting, advanced search and replace operations, HEX mode, column mode, and more.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. Frhed icon
     12 likes

    Frhed(Free hex editor) is an binary file editor for Windows. It is small but has many advanced features like ability to load big files partially. String replacement, multi-language, and other features.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
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  10. BEYE (Binary EYE) is a free, portable, advanced file viewer with built-in editor for binary, hexadecimal and disassembler modes. It contains a highlight AVR/Java/i86-AMD64/ARM-XScale/PPC-64 and other disassembler, full preview of MZ,NE,PE,ELF and other.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BlackBerry QNX
    • FreeDOS
    • FreeBSD
    • MS-DOS
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  11.  3 likes

    VBinDiff (Visual Binary Diff) displays files in hexadecimal and ASCII (or EBCDIC). It can also display two files at once, and highlight the differences between them.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • MacPorts
    • Homebrew
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  12. Synalyze It! icon
     8 likes

    You got a binary file and don't know its contents. Or some software creates binary files where you have a specification but don't want to decode them manually.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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